Orbital Arrows

Turn a single arrow into an orbital strike.

Orbital Arrows adds a unique craftable bow that summons a rain of arrows whenever one of its arrows hits a block. Only the Orbital Bow can trigger the effect, so normal bows continue to behave exactly as expected.

The plugin is designed to be lightweight, configurable, and optimized for performance, making it suitable for survival, PvP, and event servers.

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Features

• Custom Orbital Bow
• Arrow rain is only triggered by the Orbital Bow
• Configurable strike radius
• Configurable number of falling arrows
• Configurable arrow damage
• Fully customizable crafting recipe
• Falling arrows automatically despawn after 2 seconds to reduce lag
• No commands
• No permissions

How it works

1. Craft the Orbital Bow.
2. Fire an arrow using the custom bow.
3. When the arrow hits a block, an orbital strike begins.
4. Arrows fall vertically over the configured area, damaging anything they hit.
5. Falling arrows are automatically removed after 2 seconds to keep the effect lightweight.

Configuration

Everything can be customized.

# Radius for the circle in which arrows will strike
radius: 8

# Number of arrows that will strike
# 100 is considered a medium amount
arrows: 100

# Damage dealt by falling arrows
# Value is in half-hearts
# Example: 20 = 10 hearts
damage: 20

# Recipe for the Orbital Bow
orbital_bow:
  recipes:
    shape:
      - "ABA"
      - " C "
      - " D "

    ingredients:
      A: NETHERITE_BLOCK
      B: DRAGON_EGG
      C: BOW
      D: DIAMOND_BLOCK

Installation

1. Download the latest version.
2. Place the .jar file into your server's /plugins folder.
3. Restart your server.
4. Craft the Orbital Bow and start using it.

Crafting

The Orbital Bow recipe is fully configurable through the configuration file, allowing you to balance it however you like for your server.

Performance

Orbital Arrows is designed with server performance in mind.

To help reduce unnecessary entities, all arrows spawned during an orbital strike are automatically removed after 2 seconds. This keeps the effect impressive while minimizing its impact on gameplay.

Support

If you have questions, found a bug, or would like to suggest a feature, feel free to join the Discord community.